Husband, father, coder, photographer, traveler.
Starting my day in the California desert where temps are in the 80s and ending it in the Rockies where temps are in the 40s. Can’t decide whether to wear shorts or pants.
Think I’ll go with shorts because this might be my last chance to wear them this season.
Here’s another one of my favorite shots from Yosemite a couple weeks ago. It’s a shot of Sentinel Bridge from the riverbed of the Merced. One reason I like it is because you can’t get this shot in the summer months when the river is full…you’d be in 3-4 feet of water.
Printed this one out to hang in the new house.
Me vs bears
Checkmate
Huh… Just felt an earthquake. Nothing major, just barely strong enough to make the house creek and the dogs start barking. Ended up being a 3.1 magnitude about 25 miles west of here.
I recorded this video almost 2 weeks ago, but have been too swamped to edit it. Here are the first two projects I worked on when getting here: setting up my desk for the next 5 weeks, and installing an Ecobee thermostat.
Crap…just broke a drill bit. Might be time to replace my set with some Milwaukees.
Here’s the last leg of the trip…with stops in Vegas and a gem I came across called Quail Creek Park.
On day 2, I drove from York, Nebraska to Selina, Utah. I-70 through the Rockies was amazing.
I’m spending the next several weeks in California. On Sunday I started driving out, and decided to VLOG about it. Here’s driving from Michigan to California, Day 1.
Going to start posting a few photos over on Vero.
Here’s a shot I took last month from a lookout off Highway 160 in Colorado. It was a stunning drive through the valley.
The new generics functionality in Swift 5.7 is going to save a lot of headaches. Something I spent a day working around just last month seems to just not be an issue at all in 5.7.
Zooming out a little bit…
Of course, it’s striking me that stopping the top-level Xcode project would instantly kill the VM. Might want to create an App to use this more regularly.
By the way, that last screenshot was taken from an Xcode project compiling an Apple Silicon Virtual Machine with Ventura installed and running the UTC app from Xcode.
The new MenuBarExtra SwiftUI View makes it embarrassingly easy to create a Menu Bar app. Here’s a UTC clock in 40 lines of code…
Great to see continued improvements to iPad usability. Sure, they’re baby steps, but they are definitely heading in the right direction.
Canon MiniDV camcorder -> 4 pin to 6 pin adapter -> FireWire 400 -> FireWire 800 -> Thunderbolt 2 -> Thunderbolt 3 -> Final Cut Pro.
Somehow in 2022, this still works. Incredible.
Sustaining over 1GB/s on the TrueNAS server across two volumes. I could watch this all day…
Finished watching season 1 of Only Murders in the Building. Thoroughly enjoyed the twists and turns along the way. Can’t wait ‘til season 2!
Spent 2 hours pulling the Miata engine apart to try and track down an oil leak with the help of an oil additive and some UV light. 90% sure it’s the front crankshaft seal.
Gotta order some parts and will probably take me a day to finish the job. I’ll need to pull the timing belt and re-time the engine, so that will be most of the work. Really hoping I won’t have to drain the coolant, but we’ll see.
Watched the Who Killed the Electric Car documentary with the kids this evening. Still tugs at the heartstrings to see how electric car tech was delayed for decades by actions portrayed in the film.
But it’s encouraging to see just how much has improved in the years since.